Just got home from a long day out, and caught up with the news... how damned frightening and terrifying.
last week, we saw a spat between the SA government and US/Britain/Australia after the latter nations issued a 'security alert' about possible terror attacks here.
The SA Government had a wobbler, and accused them of scaremongering.
Given that Cape Town has a massive gay population, and is a big 'pink' tourist destinatio, maybe the local rozzers should be concerned?
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Up to now there are over 50 dead.
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______ has nothing to do with it.
_______ is a religion of peace.
(fill the blanks, clue- the truth is politically incorrect statement).
This is the not the first, this won't be the last.
PS: I expect to get few frownie faces.
Last edited by: movilogo on Sun 12 Jun 16 at 19:13
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A few more votes for Trump, I would think.
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Trump is already blaming Islamic State.
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Attack on gay club in USA.
Attacker had religious motivation.
What difference if motivation was Islam or Christian?
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'Fundamentalists' of both religions claim the Bible/Koran bans the practice.
Can't speak for the Koran (I've not read it) but of the Bible, only the old testament appears to ban homosexuality. However, that 'evidence' is dependant on translation, and even if if did, the same book (Leviticus 19:19, and Deuteronomy 22:11 for one) bans the wearing of mixed fibres, shellfish, pork, and black pudding (blood). Let he who is without sin cast the first stone and all that.
Err, and God is love and we're all created in his image?
Last edited by: Slidingpillar on Sun 12 Jun 16 at 20:32
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I think the love and forgiveness thing in V2.0 trumps all that s***.
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>>Can't speak for the Koran (I've not read it)
Let the Koran speak for itself:
Quran (7:80-84) - "...For ye practice your lusts on men in preference to women: ye are indeed a people transgressing beyond bounds.... And we rained down on them a shower (of brimstone)"
Quran (7:81) - "Will ye commit abomination such as no creature ever did before you?"
Quran (26:165-166) - "Of all the creatures in the world, will ye approach males, "And leave those whom Allah has created for you to be your mates? Nay, ye are a people transgressing"
Quran (4:16) - "If two men among you are guilty of lewdness, punish them both. If they repent and amend, Leave them alone"
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Surly the problem here is that deranged individuals have easy access to assault rifles and ammunition.
What pretext the individual chooses to mow down 50 unknown strangers is hardly relevant. Does anyone think that individual like him would not be drawn to to some bizarre cause or other?
Without an assault rifle he would be a just sad and deluded and totally irrelevant person. There are lot of them in this world.
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However many nutjobs we have in the world, religion does it's best to create more of them. I find it very sad that in these times of scientific enlightenment people are still prepared to believe in some stone age fantasy they think makes them superior to those who don't subscribe.
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Scum. I won't even kill a spider, let alone another person!
I have some GLBT friends who still get trouble in the country and have got stick when sightseeing in the US.
This is hatred and terrorism. These people were out having harmless fun and this prat thinks that he has the right to kill them because he saw a gay couple hug and kiss and didn't like it!
I live near Lewes where 10 people were burnt for their religious views 500 years ago. When I was a lad I was pleased that we had moved on from the bigotry but in reality, we haven't. It is a sad world.
Re Gun control. I now think that the 30 year sentence handed down to a gun runner caught in Kent recently is not enough given the carnage that these assault weapons can cause.
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>> However many nutjobs we have in the world, religion does it's best to create more
>> of them.
Some religious fanatics undoubtedly do as do white supremacists, neo nazis, extreme pro-life fanatics and other groups and individuals full of hatred of their fellow man.
The point is that these type of people will always be with us. You cannot stop people believing dangerous rubbish. What you need to ensure is they don't easily acquire the means to put their beliefs into action.
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>> What difference if motivation was Islam or Christian?
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None whatsoever... it's just that Islam is going for it at the moment.
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>> PS: I expect to get few frownie faces.
Happy to oblige.
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I believe terrorism has not yet been identified as the motive, although I suppose it could have been some kind of collateral version, in which the assailant decided for himself. If the attack was primarily an anti-gay protest I can't believe at gays are not as thick on the ground in Muslim societies as elsewhere. From observation I would say this is the case in one society I know which has a large Muslim element, perhaps 50% of the population and homosexuality is actually legal in the largest Muslim society, Indonesia. Maybe they are just more discreet.
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I've seen reports that ISIL are claiming 'credit' for the attack.
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>> I've seen reports that ISIL are claiming 'credit' for the attack.
They get the Mandy Rice-Davies riposte unless/until evidence shows a link beyond 'inspiration'.
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You can't stop somebody deciding to go on a killing spree if weapons are so easily available.
What his motives where I don't know.We are that used to reports from America where people are shot on a regular basis.The amount of people is various but it has still a devastating inpact on the victims (Dead)
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-36514608
Headline - "Orlando shootings: Club attacker had 'grudge in his heart', father says"
1st para - "The father of a gunman who killed dozens of people in an Orlando gay club says he did not know that his son had a "grudge in his heart"."
Shurely shome mishtake??
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sub editors... a dying breed.
Today I've read of Chris Evans 'wretching' in the car (DailyWail)
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Undoubtedly a tragedy and waste of lives.
Do you think that a single family member or friend will get any comfort, solace etc that in either Glasgow's George Square, or Soho in London, there are people meeting to light candles and have vigils?
I just can't get my head round these "outpourings of grief" - fair enough if you know someone involved but are we a rent-a-mob society now??
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>> Do you think that a single family member or friend will get any comfort, solace
>> etc that in either Glasgow's George Square, or Soho in London, there are people meeting
>> to light candles and have vigils?
Yes. Worldwide sympathy (and charitable etc contributions) will absolutely give comfort and solace.
Just as it does with natural disasters and such like.
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>> I just can't get my head round these "outpourings of grief" - fair enough if
>> you know someone involved but are we a rent-a-mob society now??
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They are probably the same people who are outraged on behalf of others.
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> Do you think that a single family member or friend will get any comfort, solace
>> etc that in either Glasgow's George Square, or Soho in London, there are people meeting
>> to light candles and have vigils?
For some perhaps so, i can't imagine it being of any help to me but if it helps others why not.?
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Being reported this morning that Orlando killer was a regular customer at Pulse.
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Do you think that a single family member or friend will get any comfort, solace etc that in either Glasgow's George Square, or Soho in London, there are people meeting to light candles and have vigils.
The way I read it, it's not so much trying to help the victims or their loved ones, but showing solidarity with them. 'You are not alone' etc.
Rather like the 'Je suis Charlie' campaign of a year and a bit ago.
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SWMBO reported that there was a holdup to remember Orlando at Queens tennis yesterday.
Did I miss the the similar events for other happenings around the world.
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>> Did I miss the the similar events for other happenings around the world.
Yes. Silences etc were held, for example, for the Paris attacks.
You'd be in firmer ground though in saying we're slower to mark such events outside Europe/USA.
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>>You'd be in firmer ground though in saying we're slower to mark such events outside Europe/USA.
How many migrant boats have sunk in the Med ?
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>> SWMBO reported that there was a holdup to remember Orlando at Queens tennis yesterday.
What's a holdup?
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>> What's a holdup?
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A small one is a mugging, a big one is a bank robbery.
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Another one
news.sky.com/story/1711521/paris-policeman-murdered-in-terrorist-attack
I suppose we ought to wait to see whether this suspect was failed by social services or wasn't allowed into the Scouts when he was 10 years old.
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>> I suppose we ought to wait to see whether this suspect was failed by social
>> services or wasn't allowed into the Scouts when he was 10 years old.
Had a previous conviction for 'aiding and abetting' and was supposedly under surveillance.
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Evidently a regular customer of the venue. What was he doing, sussing out the escape routes for eventual blockage perhaps?
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>>Evidently a regular customer of the venue. What was he doing, sussing out the escape routes for eventual blockage perhaps?
I reckon there will be some issue with repressed homosexuality within a social/family group that finds homosexuality distasteful at best, and worthy of death at worst.
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>> I reckon there will be some issue with repressed homosexuality within a social/family group that finds homosexuality distasteful at best, and worthy of death at worst.
Yes.
All sexual activity has a distasteful side though, depending to some extent on your point of view. The contradiction between love and 'messiness' is stimulating in itself.
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>> All sexual activity has a distasteful side though, depending to some extent on your point
>> of view. The contradiction between love and 'messiness' is stimulating in itself.
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As Spanker Mosley wrote to Private Eye recently, the daily mail seems to think that anything other than missionary position is depraved.
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>>All sexual activity has a distasteful side though,
You're doing it wrong.
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I wonder how repressed homosexuality would affect the usual reward.
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>> I wonder how repressed homosexuality would affect the usual reward.
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It's Paradise, so I should think you'd be able to chose the gender of your virgins. Perhaps 36 of each?
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Searching for "list of islamic terror attacks" (in Google) brings this list.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Islamist_terrorist_attacks
You may search for other religion but it won't bring any equivalent page.
Last edited by: movilogo on Tue 14 Jun 16 at 16:11
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>>I wonder how repressed homosexuality would affect the usual reward.
"Martyrs for the cause of Allah enjoy an orgy of virgins and "perpetual youth" Quran (56:17) (otherwise known as "boys" Quran (52:24)).
Quran (76:19) bluntly states, ""And immortal boys will circulate among them, when you see them you will count them as scattered pearls."
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>> You're doing it wrong
Perhaps FMR, but I don't think so.
What I really meant is that one doesn't want to get too close to anyone else's sex activity, unless one is personally involved.
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Yes, one's own sexual activities are fascinating but those of others are dead boring.
Come to think of it, the same applies to children.
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Good video and interesting, more guns more deaths.
If a USA President can't make any difference who can?
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There are a lot of gun suicides. Many or most will have been committed at a low moment on impulse. Ten minutes of reflection or even less would have brought a happier outcome.
There's something perverse and very American about it. The love affair with the gun is the real thing, focused on gun-fellatio...
I speak as a firearms aficionado. I like guns myself.
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Picked up from the press: The USA has more gun shops than branches of Starbucks.
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Orlando attacks - Westpig
